Jonathan Gurwitz

Women are better than men. Sorry guys, but it’s true. Men cheat, lie, steal and murder at far great rates than women. Look at the U.S. prison population, which enormously underrepresents women across all economic and social barriers. As the Bureau of Justice Statistics reports: Ninety-two percent of inmates held in custody for state or federal authorities on […]
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Vice President Joe Biden gets his share of well-deserved knocks. Look up “malapropism” in the dictionary and you’re likely to find his picture right after that of former President George W. Bush. Slate Magazine’s Jacob Weisberg made a cottage industry out of cataloguing “Bushisms,” such as: “I’m telling you there’s an enemy that would like to […]
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Readers of a certain age (or with children of a certain age) may remember a regular feature of PBS’s “Sesame Street” called “One of these things is not like the others.” Viewers are presented with four items, three of which … well, let’s let the song explain it: One of these things is not […]
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After Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in November, President Barack Obama cautioned against a rush to judgment on what might have motivated him: “We don’t know all the answers yet. And I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.” But jump some people did. […]
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An act of domestic terrorism. I don’t know how you can possibly call it anything else. Imagine someone named Yusef Shafiq carrying out a suicide attack, piloting a small plane into a building housing U.S. government offices after leaving a lengthy anti-government manifesto. Would anyone have any doubt it was a terrorist attack? In fact, an al-Qaida […]
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Sarah Palin is receiving some deserved ridicule for using hand-written (as in “written on her hand”) notes at the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville. It wasn’t as if she was discussing a list of compound formulas at a meeting of the National Chemical Society. Her crib notes consisted of the following talking points: energy, budget […]
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The year was 1965. William F. Buckley, upstart magazine publisher and erudite voice of the conservative movement, was running for mayor of New York City. Buckley went on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” where host Gabe Pressman sought his thoughts about the wisdom of the American voter: “I rejoice over the influence of the […]
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San Antonian John Cornyn is the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, a job that had all the appeal of a septic tank technician when he assumed it after the 2008 general election. Democrats had just padded their majority in the House, won a filibuster-proof supermajority in the Senate and taken over the White House. […]
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In November, a Rasmussen automated poll put support for GOP gubernatorial candidate Debra Medina at 4 percent. A new poll conducted after the first Republican debate with all three candidates (Medina, Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison) shows her at 12 percent. That was enough to compel Belo to extend an invitation to […]
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There’s much to admire about Farouk Shami. As his campaign Web site biography makes clear, he is the embodiment of the American dream. But what should be an uplifting political story about a billion-dollar immigrant success has taken a bizarre turn into the realm of religion. The main issue confronting Shami’s campaign right now is this: […]
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